Re: Must pppd be run by root?
Craig Sanders writes:
>
>On Sun, 12 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
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>> >>>>> "R" == Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk> writes:
>>
>> R> pppd has to do various messing around creating network interfaces
>> R> and so on, so running it as (not root) is a bit of a non-starter.
>> R> Why do you want it to be able to run it not as root?
>
>two words:
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>DIAL-IN USERS
>
>> Right, pppd really needs to be run as root. You don't want just any
>> user killing your net connection. If you want to let a selected set
>> of users bring the net connection up and down, check out sudo. It's
>> designed for this.
>
>This permissions problem just cost me over $44 (australian dollars).
>
>I upgraded pppd on the dialin machine at work on Friday night. Forgot to
>change the permissions on pppd to make it owned by root.ppp, perms=1750.
>
>When the line dropped out from my home machine to my work machine at 5am
>the next morning, my home system automatically dialed in
Under the control of what user? Why not root?
>to re-establish the link. Logged in OK, ran pppd. The connection
>dropped again because it didn't have the right perms. My system then
>proceeded to call every 2 minutes, until I got home and stopped it at
>about 11am.
ttfn/rjk
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